What do you do when you know the weekend is going to rain an you still work full time?

VB1971

VB1971

Tour Pro
Push out a few meetings and explore the dirt roads around Yan Yean and Strathewen for a few hrs!!! I start at Ridge Road and wind my way to Strathewen and back again!!! Just what the bike and I needed :)



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VB1971

VB1971

Tour Pro
Sometimes come back along the bitumen if I am running out of time and if I can find extra time I make the climb up to Kinglake central
 
VB1971

VB1971

Tour Pro
glipschitz said:
Nice work!
Time is totally slipping away at the moment. Are the days getting shorter?
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Feels like it!!! Luckily work has decided to grant me extra leave over Xmas due to my recalcitrant behaviour and not taking it, SO between chores am hoping to ride as much as possible
 
glitch

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
VB1971 said:
Sometimes come back along the bitumen if I am running out of time and if I can find extra time I make the climb up to Kinglake central
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Some neat black-top around there, too :)
Looks like you nipped the best part of the day, it's been drizzling/raining without a break all arvo over here.

For another sweet "shorty" with about 60% gravel, great vistas, lots of single-lane stuff, ~2hrs for this loop https://bit.ly/3NiX00a
(before adding the to+from stretches).
 
glipschitz

glipschitz

Long Timer
VB1971 said:
Feels like it!!! Luckily work has decided to grant me extra leave over Xmas due to my recalcitrant behaviour and not taking it, SO between chores am hoping to ride as much as possible
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Between work and kids shit, spare time feels non existent.
Going to the gym regularly is about the only routine thing at the moment.
Busy run towards the fat man and then 10 days up north mid Jan which will be nice.
Might get some hours in the saddle between Christmas and new year which will be good.
 
Squizzy

Squizzy

Part of the furniture
Don't forget Beale Ave, going up is good fun, but coming down is much better with touchy brakes :) just ask Ant :p
 
nev

nev

Super Térrarist
Squizzy said:
Don't forget Beale Ave, going up is good fun, but coming down is much better with touchy brakes :) just ask Ant :p
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The last time I came down Beale Ave, The really really steep section was being graded, I met the grader about halfway down. He was heading up the hill, and a water truck had just gone down the hill ahead of me to keep things exciting. I forget which bike I was on, it was probably the Terra. I was shitting my pants the whole way. I think I managed to just get it back into first gear and stay off the brakes and steer my way down in a mostly uncontrolled descent.
 
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